8.5-hectare forest to be established near Nubarashen Highway

ArmInfo. An 8.5-hectare forest is set to be established near the Nubarashen Highway. Sirarpi Haykazyan, the Head of the Nature Protection Department at the Yerevan Municipality, made this statement at a working meeting on  April 6.

The project envisages planting 10,000 trees. Currently, work on  installing an irrigation system, constructing a pumping station, and  building a 50-cubic-meter reservoir has been completed. Tree planting  is scheduled for the end of April.

Haykazyan noted that the project is being implemented with  co-financing from the Yerevan Municipality and funds provided by the  Ministry of Environment of Armenia. During the meeting, Yerevan Mayor  Tigran Avinyan emphasized that in recent years, the city's green  space has been replenished with 21,000 trees and 60,000 square meters  of green space.